Cornell University, Archives 4600 Bd. Ms. 52

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12148

Shelfmark:

Archives 4600 Bd. Ms. 52

Title:

Tractatus de confessione [...et al

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

ca. 1448-1450.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Latin. Several folios (145r-149r) contain German text

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 239 leaves : paper ; 210 x 147 (ca. 165-85 x ca. 105-30) mm. bound to 212 x 150 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Layout: Irregular number of lines (full page or double columns).
Script: Gothic cursive, very rapid; several hands.
Decoration: circle inscribed with pinwheel design on f. 214r.
Binding: Original wooden boards and rough pigskin, with bosses; spine missing, cords exposed.
Origin: Written in Germany, ca. 1448-1450.
Provenance: From the Carthusians of Buxheim; not identified in the sale of Graf Hugo von Waldbott-Bassenheim (Münich, 20 Sept. 1883). Obtained in Germany, in 1893, for the White Library.
Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare BX T75
Related shelfmark: B.15 (De Ricci)

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

Early works

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/3977139

Holding Institution:

Cornell University